Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 660

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1408vs960
Compute Units22vs5
Core clock1670 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs24
TMUs88vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 660
TDP150 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better